Adult Female Preventive Care Objectives and References

Periodic/preventative health care involves relating
to an asymptomatic patient for the purpose of case finding and screening for
undetected disease and higher risk behavior. It is also an opportunity for
health promotion and disease prevention.
The elements of the PHE can be delivered by dedicated planned visits or
opportunistically in the context of other health care visits.

The decision to include or exclude a medical
condition in the PHE should be based on the burden of suffering caused by the
condition, the quality of the screening, and effectiveness of the intervention.

Objectives:

By the
end of Family Medicine Clerkship, students will be able to:

1. Conduct a patient interview so as to identify any significant age-, sex-,
context-specific risk factors for health conditions.